NEW LONDON — A Lebanon man convicted of domestic violence and facing more domestic violence charges was warned Friday not to communicate with his alleged victims.

Michael Manifold, 38, appeared in New London Superior Court on a charge he violated probation after getting convicted of a January 2010 domestic assault and serving a 30-month prison sentence.

The violation of probation charge was brought in December. According to police, Manifold threatened the woman several times.

While out on bail, Manifold was arrested June 7 in a domestic assault case involving a different woman from the one in his 2010 arrest. He is charged in the June 7 case with disorderly conduct, third-degree assault and second-degree threatening.

The woman told police that she got into an argument with Manifold’s son about a pocket knife that the son claimed belonged to him. Manifold got involved in the argument, police said, and chased the woman upstairs and into her bedroom. He kicked open the locked bedroom door, police said, slapped the woman’s face and threatened to kill her.

Manifold was arrested on July 3 for violating a protective order that had been issued against the woman in the June 7 case.

According to a state police report, the violation occurred when Manifold emailed one of her relatives a video of Manifold arguing with her and another video of the woman having sex with another man. Police said Manifold also posted the videos on YouTube.

Police said that Manifold told them that “he wanted to use them as proof that he is innocent” in the June 7 case.

According to a Sept. 17 letter to the court from Willimantic probation officer Melissa Grange, Manifold was referred in September to a 26-week domestic violence program. Grange quoted a report from that program as saying: “Client stated on the day of the incident he went to the home to get his key. The victim refused to give him his keys and he left. He got arrested 4 days later. He stated the police, judge and prosecutor were out to get him and he has evidence that will prove his innocence.”

Manifold is free on a total $611,000 bail in his three cases. Judge Hillary Strackbein warned him that she would raise his bail if he communicates in any way with the people listed in protective orders.

“It becomes clear that these people are in fear of you,” Strackbein said.

The judge said Manifold wasn’t allowed to have a third person pass a message on. “You think you’re being clever, but this is not a game. … When we hear worried complainants, that’s something we take very seriously, … especially the children, who should not be used as pawns.”

Page 2 of 2 - Manifold has custody of his three children with the woman in the 2010 case. He was given custody after they testified their mother abused them while Manifold was in prison.